Specialist areas of work and services:
Description:
Criminologist specialized in the international protection of Human and Children's Rights; expert in the study and fight against Human Trafficking PhD
Experience, Background and Services:
Criminologist and PhD Candidate in Law from King Juan Carlos University with a thesis entitled ‘Comparative study of the victimological profile in/of women and girls victims of trafficking: patterns in the material means of the crime according to their geographical area of origin’, María is a specialist in the international protection of Human Rights and Children's Rights; expert in the study and fight against Human Trafficking.
María holds a Master's Degree in Needs, Rights and Development Cooperation in Childhood from the Autonomous University of Madrid and UNICEF, and another Master's Degree in International Protection of Human Rights from the Alcala University. In addition, she has a University Expert in Management of Non-Profit Organizations by the UNED.
Her professional career has focused on the design of programs for the protection of human and children's rights, specializing in the identification, analysis and prevention of different forms of violence against children and women, the coordination of projects and social entities, and the development of training materials on these issues.
The field to which she has dedicated her entire professional career is human trafficking, a relationship that began to be forged at the end of her first year in Thailand, working in an International Cooperation programme. In the following years she had the opportunity to continue volunteering in different orphanages located in hot spots and large trafficking areas in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Thailand for several months, as well as travelling to more than a dozen countries in the region training and researching the development of this crime.
As a result of this vocation, nearly during the last decade she has developed her work as a technician of the State Program against Human Trafficking in Spain for the Women's Institute through TragsaTec, in different social entities dedicated to the eradication and assistance to victims of trafficking, conducting training courses on this subject in different public and private institutions, participating as a speaker at conferences and national and international congresses on the subject, and conducting research that shed light on the dark reality of this crime.
What defines her work? Her passion for the humanitarian world, her firm belief in change, and her deep commitment to ensuring the protection of the rights of women and children around the world. She works daily to develop projects and institutions that improve people's lives.
Her professional and personal goal is to continue ensuring the protection of vulnerable groups in countries around the world by raising awareness of the serious crime of human trafficking and the harsh impact it has on its victims, giving a voice to all women and children who, at some point, have been deprived of it.
- Child Marriage
- Debt Bondage
- Forced Criminality
- Forced Marriage
- General
- International Adoption
- Organ Trafficking
- Sale of Children
- Sex Trafficking
Description:
Criminologist specialized in the international protection of Human and Children's Rights; expert in the study and fight against Human Trafficking PhD
Experience, Background and Services:
Criminologist and PhD Candidate in Law from King Juan Carlos University with a thesis entitled ‘Comparative study of the victimological profile in/of women and girls victims of trafficking: patterns in the material means of the crime according to their geographical area of origin’, María is a specialist in the international protection of Human Rights and Children's Rights; expert in the study and fight against Human Trafficking.
María holds a Master's Degree in Needs, Rights and Development Cooperation in Childhood from the Autonomous University of Madrid and UNICEF, and another Master's Degree in International Protection of Human Rights from the Alcala University. In addition, she has a University Expert in Management of Non-Profit Organizations by the UNED.
Her professional career has focused on the design of programs for the protection of human and children's rights, specializing in the identification, analysis and prevention of different forms of violence against children and women, the coordination of projects and social entities, and the development of training materials on these issues.
The field to which she has dedicated her entire professional career is human trafficking, a relationship that began to be forged at the end of her first year in Thailand, working in an International Cooperation programme. In the following years she had the opportunity to continue volunteering in different orphanages located in hot spots and large trafficking areas in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Thailand for several months, as well as travelling to more than a dozen countries in the region training and researching the development of this crime.
As a result of this vocation, nearly during the last decade she has developed her work as a technician of the State Program against Human Trafficking in Spain for the Women's Institute through TragsaTec, in different social entities dedicated to the eradication and assistance to victims of trafficking, conducting training courses on this subject in different public and private institutions, participating as a speaker at conferences and national and international congresses on the subject, and conducting research that shed light on the dark reality of this crime.
What defines her work? Her passion for the humanitarian world, her firm belief in change, and her deep commitment to ensuring the protection of the rights of women and children around the world. She works daily to develop projects and institutions that improve people's lives.
Her professional and personal goal is to continue ensuring the protection of vulnerable groups in countries around the world by raising awareness of the serious crime of human trafficking and the harsh impact it has on its victims, giving a voice to all women and children who, at some point, have been deprived of it.
